Jack Welch to Obama: Suck It!
The two people most responsible for my interest in politics are Don Imus and Tim Russert. So while I think most of MSNBC (and NBC News as a whole) should start off each broadcast with “I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message,” I’ve grown accustomed to watching it from six to nine in the morning…especially when most of the guests who’s opinion I enjoy transferred over from “Imus in the Morning” to “Morning Joe,” like Joe and Mika, Barnicle, Uncle Pat, Money Party, Tucker when they let him on TV, etc.
But my favourite is Jack Welch.
I’ve always been drawn to the type of “old school” cats who tell you what you need to know regardless of if you want to hear it or not (two of my heroes growing up were Ronald Reagan and Ed Koch), which in the midst of the current economic [place hyperbole here], we need. When Jack Welch is on, I wait an extra ten minutes before I leave to work.
Monday morning, he completely lost his shit. First with TV’s own Mika Brzezinski…
JACK WELCH: This guy is locked in another world. And he’s throwing all these initiatives into this game in the middle of a crisis. Focus on the crisis! Focus on the economy!
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: You could argue all these initiatives are inter-related-energy, health care -
WELCH: Get out of here! They’re not related at all!
BRZEZINSKI: Did he just say that?
WELCH: Right now they’re not related. Right now it’s the economy, Mika. It’s the economy. It’s getting the banks going. It’s a clear message to everybody: all hands on deck. We have a crisis: let’s deal with this. Not one day, carbon tax. One day, take the kids out of the Washington schools. I mean it’s, it’s crazy!
Then he went on to say…
I had cocktail parties this weekend; I stayed in New York. If you even bring up the name Barack Obama and start to go down this [road to criticism] – I love the guy. I think he’s great. I think he has a beautiful family. I think he’s a good man. But these- you bring up a comment about him, and all of a sudden you’re a pariah! You’re not American! You’re a bad guy. If you even bring his name up. My two trust-fund daughters, if I bring his name up in anything other than a glori[fying way]-they don’t have any critical thinking about it at all!
So you can add Mr. Welch to the list of Obama Economic critics including non-ideological Rick Santelli, left-leaning and frequent Bush critic Jim Cramer, and life long Democrat and Obama supporter WARREN F’N BUFFETT.
Robert Gibbs, stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
(H/T Finkel Blog)
UPDATE: All those people…and Arlen Specter?
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